John Fultz wrote:
> As some people have already discovered, we've released a plug-in we've
> called Wolfram Notebook Indexer for Google Desktop Search. This plug-in
> allows GDS to index all of the Mathematica notebooks on your system, and
> does not require Mathematica to be installed.
>
> This is a product which has, in some form or another, been in development
> and use for some time in-house. In response to the enthusiasm a number of
> users have expressed, we decided to release a version early in the form of
> a public beta, which you can get here...
>
> http://library.wolfram.com/infocenter/Utilities/5596/
>
> There's also a link to it from the Wolfram home page at www.wolfram.com.
>
> We don't have a schedule for a final release, yet. We'll continue
> development on Wolfram Notebook Indexer (as well as various other related
> searching projects we haven't announced, yet) with the help of your
> feedback from the public beta. As noted in the above link, bug reports and
> suggestions for Wolfram Notebook Indexer beta should be emailed to
> prerelease at wolfram.com.
>
> John Fultz
> jfultz at wolfram.com
> User Interface Group
> Wolfram Research, Inc.
>
>
John,
Can you tell us exactly how much GDS breaches our security? Does it
transmit information back to GOOGLE, for example - people are starting
to get a bit paranoid about GOOGLE!
I would like to try this product if I were sure it was safe.
David Bailey
dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk